Constituency
240. Vishnupur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1967
WB-VISHNUPUR
INC 49.3%won by 34.2%IND 15.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 34.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.8% to 49.3% of the vote here (+4.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 15.1% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.5% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
40,612
Margin
13,898
34.22%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1B . C . MANDALIndian National Congress · INC20,04249.3%
- 2K . K . BASUIndependent · IND6,14415.1%
- 3B . K . SARKARCommunist Party of India · CPI5,13312.6%
- 4D . DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,39310.8%
- 5A . MITRAIndependent · IND3,9199.6%
- 6B . MUKHOPADHYAYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9812.4%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −10.6%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 49.3%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 15.1%
- Turnout
- — → —